Robert Frost's Poetry: Aquainted with the Night.
Robert Frost in considered one of the greatest American poets of his time, with works that cover themes varying from the reflection of human life situations in, and the personification of nature; to highly personal, personality driven poems. It is his ability to reach through his poems both the ordinary man and also a more literary audience that makes his poetry universally admired. Another way that Frost unlike other more flashily literary writers does not alienate his audience is that his poems are written in 'simple' English, the language used is the language used everyday, in conversations and letter writing. A person reading one of Frost's poems can understand every single word there, without the need to use at a dictionary or thesaurus. Frost uses 'simple' English so that people may better understand his poems, and perhaps, as a result, better understand the message he is trying to get across to his reader. That much has been written about his poetry and the differing opinions on the analyses and hidden meanings thought to be contained in his poems show us that our understanding of Frost's work can be deepened and changed by re-reading of his work. It is this duality in Frost's work both in the fact that he uses simple language to portray seemingly simple tales that in fact contain complex themes, and his mixing of complex theoretical poetry techniques with this simple writing style that makes his work appeal to readers of all levels. In his poem Acquainted with the Night v/s written in 1928, we see a prime example of Frost's ability to create a feeling of unease in the reader which leads to a need to understand what is happening and why.
From the start Frost challenges the reader by his use of the terza rima stanza style, he combines this with an iambic pentameter meter and then goes on to couple this to such a personal and bleak narrative written in simple language.
